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PEN EXTEAGTOE 0R- DEVICE EOE REMOVING PENS EEOMTEEIE HOLDERS. No. 400,341. Patented Mar. 26, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADOLPH G. HOFSTATIER, OF N EXV YORK, N. Y

PEN-EXTRACTOR OR DEVICE FOR REMOVING PENS FROM THEIR HOLDERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,341, dated March 26, 1889.

Application filed January 19, 1889, Serial No. 296,801. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADOLPH G. HOFSTATTER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Pen-Extractor or Device for Removing Pens from their Holders with Neatness and Ease; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

My. invention has for its object to provide a neat efficient device for removing pens from their holders Without soiling the fingers or injuring the pen.

It consists in a piece of elastically-yielding material of any desirable, neat, or ornamental outward configuration, longitudinally dividedat one end by a slit curved in its cross-section and terminating in an enlarged recess, as hereinafter more particularly described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of my improved pen-extractor; Fig. 2, a transverse section thereof, and Fig. 3 a view in perspective of the device as applied to a pen for the purpose of removing it from its holder.

A represents an oblong piece of rubber or other equivalent elastically-yielding material. This extended piece may be variously formed, as taste and ingenuity may suggest, provided it be longenough to fairly embrace in its length the end of a pen projecting from a suitable holder. It is longitudinally divided for the greater portion of its length by means of a transverse slit, B, curved in cross-section to adapt it to the transversely-curved form of the pen. This slit terminates at its inner end in an enlarged recess or aperture, 0, which extends through the piece A, and serves to protect from pressure or injury the nib of a pen clamped in the slit. By preference the lower or convex face of the transverselycurved slit is made to describe an arc of much less radius than that described by its opposing upper or concave face, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, so that it will form a rib which will readily enter the concavity of the smallest pen. The transverse aperture 0 at the inner end of the slit not only prevents any injury to the pen by reason of pressure upon its nib, but also causes the rear solid end of the piece to act as a spring, whose resiliency will operate to separate and release the divided front ends of the device from their hold upon the pen when the pressure thereon is removed. A ring or loop may be passed through the perforation O, for convenience in hanging up the device When it is not in use.

It is evident that in accordance with my invention the extractor may be formed of two separate soft elastic pieces, the one longitudinally grooved and the other havinga counterpart rib to enter the groove, the two being united at one end.

I claim as my invention- 1. The pen-extractor consisting, substantially as described, of a piece of elasticallyyielding material having alongitudinal transversely-curved slit in one end thereof.

2. The pen-extractor formed intwo longitudinal divisions united at one end, and having a longitudinal transversely-curved groove in the inner face of the one division and a counterpart rib formed in the opposite face of the other division to enter said groove, substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ADOLPH G. HOFSTATTER.

\Vitnesses:

A. N. JESBERA, E. M. WATSON. 

